Why do people think global warming is a hoax?

Question

Why do people think global warming is a hoax?

Answer 1

Because it hasn't been thoroughly studied and the greed factor that breeds from it.

Answer 2

If it keeps our British winters mild i say spray more aerosoles as the ozone!!! lol

Answer 3

Some people believe Global Warming is a hoax because they are afraid of the actual possibility of such a thing. People put global warming at the back of their minds every day, to continue on with their daily lives. Thus, they usually don't take notice of it, or any responsibility for the enviroment, and continue to put toxins and harmful substances into the earth and the atmosphere. This is vary bad. As long as people continue to overlook global warming as a "hoax" it shall become a bigger and bigger issue. What I am saying is global warming is a real issue that needs to be addressed, and will not go ignored for very long.

Answer 4

Wow, some silly answers here

pennee_l : That means each group of ~25500 people (based on an average life of 70 years) make as much each day as 1 volcano, there are 3 billion of us, based on these figures we would produce as much polution each day as ~117640 volcanos? More acurate figures on Volcanos & Co2 are

Volcanos 200-250 million tons per year

Humans 40-45 billion tons per year

Agent319: The ocean not the earth is expanding (and only bu a few inches) the sun isn't expanding there is only a tiny (0.1%) power output difference between solar min and solar max and the 1 billion years?

the sun is 4.6 billion and is thought to be half way through it's life

Best yet

ImpStout : The paper that looks like its from a peer reviewed paper, yeah right, see the link below for info on this publication which added 'journal' to its name to sound more like a scientific publication but it isn't. The last link below has info on the lead author, a chemist who peaked over 50 years ago

It is miss information like the above that cause many to be confused on the issues and think GW is a hoax

Answer 5

Well, coming from one of those people who thinks it is one big scam, here's what I personally believe:

-Global Warming IS real however it is blown SO out of proportion it's unreal, like really the end of the world? The global average temperature has changed a whole degree since modern temperature recording devices.

-I do, in a way, believe it could be completely cyclical, did you know that when the Vikings first landed in Greenland in the early 1400's it was warm?

-I do not own a car and I recycle everything I can, not because I think it will be the end of the world if I don't, but because I believe pollution is absolutely disgusting.

Answer 6

Because the earth goes through normal temperature fluctuations. People think things are getting hotter and drying up, in my local suburbs, there is a lake with a fence running through it. It used to be a dry field with animals, but has since flooded with rainfall, and is a lake.

The only real big issue is the destruction of the ozone layer, its makes it easier for us to get skin cancer now.

Answer 7

generally because they spend too much time on the Internet reading up on the latest way AGW has been disproven on blogs. the media is not helping much as well by giving equal air time to "skeptics" Even though most of the theorys they are pushing have been disproven many times over.

Answer 8

There really is no scientific case for significant AGW.  

The leaders of industry and most politicians seem to be content to wait and see.  I mean Tony Blair had a lot to say about how important it was, but it wasn't important enough to make any policy changes over.

Answer 9

It's pretty simple really. There is much research out there that contradicts the majority research opinion. There is a great paper at this link that does a great job of refuting human caused GW.

http://www.oism.org/pproject/GWReview_OI...

It is far more than a blog and has links to many studies to back up it's conclusions. A great read for the layman wanting to understand GW better.

I dare the AGW believers to read it. This is not the only paper of it's kind. I have links to many other "non believers" works.

Global warming is not a hoax.....Human caused GW is!

Oh yea.....Just because someone disagrees with you does not make them "weak minded". This is a very dangerous way of thinking and generally is bad for real research.

Andrew Q? You actually believe those wiki links somehow refute the study I provided you? One does tell the story of one of the scientists that wrote it. Nothing in it refutes the work.  Attacking the researcher does not refute their work.

Answer 10

People that have been trusted have told them (all of us) that it is a hoax.

Well, AL Gore did leave some impressions in inconvenient truth, not stated, that some others have gone on to state.

Things like, all global warming is man made,

neither stated nor implied.

We can stop Global warming... not stated but infered from the call that we SHOULD stop it.

Now there is a little extra kicker. Fighting global warming is alleged to be contrary to the interests of big oil and big coal. Reality is that the only way to fight it is to mandate reductions in extraction and importation of fossil fuel. Like OPEC, this is exactly what fossil fuel industry wants. All they need is a government authorization(mandatory) to do it.

Now this is nothing to do with the science involved, just the politics of it. But most of those that think it a hoax are rather wary  of political hoaxes coming from 'the other side'.

Answer 11

Because some believe that the Earth is expanding due to heat because of the expansion of the Sun.

Which will later turn into a White Dwarf in the next billion years.

Answer 12

Because, quite honestly, when the reasons gven by the IPPC

are ranged against the scientific facts, they do not have a proven case.

Answer 13

It's happening, but it's not us: http://thenewamerican.com/node/7009#Slid...

and also look at this graph here: http://www.masternewmedia.org/images/00o...

and here:

http://safle.org/wordpress/wp-content/up...

The temperature dropped after the 2nd World War when CO2 in ppm increased from 310 to 325 and the temperature rose through the great depression.

Answer 14

Becasue it is.

Answer 15

It's denial. A lot of people are just very weak minded when faced with something uncomfortable. It's boosted by the deliberate propaganda of some vested interest groups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism

Answer 16

It's not that GW is a hoax as much as it is the misinformed notion that man is responsible for it. I do not deny there is evidence of some GW however; I question how much man can be held responsible.

Many here say it's the oil company's behind all of the research supporting the “deniers.” But the oil company's aren't selling "Carbon credits" now are they? They aren't trying to get legislation passed that would give the government control over your thermostat and restrict the kind of light bulbs you can buy. So who is trying to control who here? Kyoto leaves out three of the top four contributors of CO2 so is it really the big issue it is being presented as?



Little boy from Texas, either you have a very bad memory or you just haven't been paying attention. I grew up in Texas also and the highs and low's here have always been crazy from year to year. I remember one year when it was warm enough to go swimming on Christmas day and then there was the time it almost snowed in June. Check the record books and you'll see record high's from the 20’s & 30’s and record lows from the 80's and 90's.



Now I have read papers on the realities of man made GW that state it is evidenced by and responsible for increased hurricane activity. Oddly enough those papers come out during times when we are experiencing increased hurricane activity. But when we are experiencing reduced activity another paper says GW causes decreased activity. Which is credible? Oh… I know, it causes both right?



The glaciers in Greenland are in fact melting around the edges but the core temps inland are lower than they have ever been. The North Pole is melting and getting smaller but the South Pole is getting bigger. There are places around the globe that are experiencing some of the coldest winters on record and others are recording milder temps than normal.

The man made GW proponents are going after our CO2 contribution to the greenhouse gas equation. Yet CO2 is not even 1/3 of the total greenhouse gasses supposedly responsible for GW. Of that less than 30% greenhouse gas contribution, man is accountable/responsible for less than 3% total. So in respect to the total greenhouse gas contribution man can be held responsible and can affect less than 1%.



And the proponents want us to believe we can control GW.

If we eliminated all man made CO2 it wouldn’t make much of a difference in the big picture.



Now the man made GW proponents want legislation/regulation which will negatively affect our economy and cost everyone more to just get by and only for us the US. The other major contributing countries around the world are getting a free pass. So now the effect on that >1% contribution is even less. And for what... absolutely nothing more than to dig in our pockets and take more of our money!

And you say we are the stupid ones.

So who's scamming who here?

Answer 17

The argument or dispute, may be more about the "cause/effect", than whether there are legitimate concerns.

Manmade vs. Natural, is really irrelevant, if the end result as theorized, occurs.

      Manmade, at least as far as is presented, "could" be reversed or limited, but that is a fantasy, that all the nations would work together, before we reach the point of no return (which some scientific thought feels has already happened).

      Whatever anyone believes myth, hoax or conspiracy, does not alter the the disclosed information, coming at us every day.  This is NOT an unseen threat, as terrorism is. This can be accurately verified ( the retreat of the glacier that feeds the Ganges River in India at a rate of 100' per year, as a single example of hundreds worldwide) and the cynics cry "fraud and hoax"...............but what motive would there be ?

      A conspiracy of major Universities worldwide and independent scientific groups, falsifying hundreds and thousands of documents ?

      The unknown quantity in all this, is a time frame, which can only be guessed at, by computer simulations, which ARE subject to human error.  

       One can only hope that the believers are wrong and the skeptics are right.........................just don't hold your breathe too long.

Answer 18

It's a MYTH that the "Cult of Deniers" have used to try to somehow discredit real science,and to try to confuse those people that don't yet have a understanding of science,or how physics work in the Natural world.  Name calling and crazy off the wall ideas, of why THEY think it's just a hoax.  No real science to back up their claims.  Just oil funded blogs,and a mush of intertwining accusations based on political biases,and religious dogma.  Just ask anyone of the 'deniers' about Evolution. You'll get a similar response!   Science trumps superstition every time!

Answer 19

Bcoz most abundant thing besides Air on this earth is stupidity.

Answer 20

They don't want it to be real (they're in denial)

Answer 21

People think global warming is a hoax because they believe many conspiracy theories. The summers are getting warmer and the winters are getting colder. I live in Texas, and the temperature as I was growing up barely surpassed 100ºF, and now most summers get to nearly 120ºF. The winters as I grew up barely dropped below 20ºF(with one exception), and now we've gotten down to subzero temperatures the last couple years. It's ridiculous. If that's not proof enough for them, they are true idiots.

Answer 22

Ok, when a volcano erupts there is enough pollution created in one day as one human being creates in a lifetime. You do the math.

Answer 23

I really don't know?

It really scares the c**p out of me!!

I'm watching a program on the Science channel showing a 12,000 year old 650 foot thick iceberg that cracked off into the ocean.  "Iceberg" investigators went into the icebergs to show how they are "hollowing" out.

They look like massive icebergs from the exterior, but they are melting at massive rates!

With icebergs melting we're losing the polar bears, etc.

South Pacific Islands are vanishing into the sea with local tribes having to relocate.

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?pr...

http://www.john-daly.com/deadisle/index....

The worst drought of the Amazon River???

Yeah!! That's normal too!

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2005/...

Deserts around the world and expanding.

Small towns around the world are being buried.

Check into China, Africa and India.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/...

Then we have the increase in tsunamis, hurricanes, forest fires, earth quakes.

There are cities in the U.S. whose rainfall has

decreased 75% and cities whose rainfall has

increased 75% of the norm.

Glaciers in Montana have decreased from 150 to 26!!!  Check out the before and after pictures.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/0...

And then there are our beautiful oceans.

As I scuba diver...I have seen the effects of this..

http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_d...

Why do they think it's a hoax??  I don't know.

I don't think humans are the sole blame.

But we sure aren't helping and there are too

many selfish people out there that don't want

to stop using or give up using their "stuff"!

Then there is the "energy" industry

And the govenment and politics!!

Ahhh, Yes.  The Government.

And "green" cities like Chicago that

plant gardens on top of buildings but won't

issue blue recycling trash cans to enforce

folks to recycle...because they cost too much!!

God!!  I could go on and on!

Yes!! It's scary and I'm scared!!

Hope you are too!

That makes two of us!!

Answer 24

Cause the reality scares the shiit out of them.

People don’t want to hear the truth.

Give it time when the Polar icecaps melts and the costal cities around the world are all underwater and millions die; they will surely have to believe then.

Answer 25

I guess it is because people weary of conspiracy theories and unproven suppositions.  Even if Enhanced Global Warming is occurring, might it not be due to natural cycles?

Note that I am a fan of the Precautionay Principle:  if a perceived risk of a problem from a current behaviour is identified, then action should be taken to prevent that problem if the wherewithal, including social co-operation exists.  Trouble is that GW has been turned into a bit of a joke, whatever the evidence, by politics.

Hehehe, it seems that my inability to toe the "GW will kill us all and we are all doomed" has earned me a few negatives!  

Climate Change is not necessarily the same thing as GW, and I always have condeeded that there have been measurable changes to things like glacial melting in our lifetime, but I am NOT convinced that it is all due to GW effects caused by humans, but we should behave as if it were.

Answer 26

Some people are ignorant to all sorts of realities and prefer to live in a fantasy world.  They go to their "happy place" when the topic arises.